Arterial calcification is highly prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease, and is a process associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Calcium phosphate deposits may be found in ...

January 20, 2011 — Routine mammography may reveal an important, but difficult to detect, marker of possible cardiovascular risk in women with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), according to investigators ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Raman spectroscopy quantified the distribution of specific mineral species, proteins and lipids in aortic tissue ...

Two well-recognized patterns of calcification occur in large- and medium-sized arteries, intimal calcification associated with atherosclerosis and medial calcification described by Mönckeberg.

Routine mammograms performed for breast cancer screening could serve another purpose as well: detecting calcifications in the blood vessels of patients with advanced kidney disease, according to a ...

The presence of breast arterial calcification, easily detected on standard mammography but typically considered inconsequential in breast cancer screening, shows significance as a possible marker of ...

The law reflects growing interest in using existing imaging studies to identify cardiovascular disease risk without requiring additional scans, radiation exposure or costs.

Arterial calcification is a gradual and progressive process that is seen in most people after the 6th decade of life. This results in a reduction of arterial elasticity and an increased propensity for ...

Logistic regression is the most cost-effective model for medial vascular calcification classification, with a mean ICER of $278 using five low-cost features. Despite similar diagnostic accuracy, ...

Bilateral nephrostomy tubes were placed for the treatment of intermittent urinary obstruction. The patient received three weeks of intravenous vancomycin, which led to resolution of the hematuria and ...

In a new study conducted by researchers at the group Vascular Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, osteomodulin was identified as a novel biomarker for vascular calcification. The ...

Breast arterial calcifications (BACs) are common findings on mammograms. There are calcium deposits in the media layer of the peripheral arterioles and this condition is called Mönckeberg medial ...